Cayman Photographers is part of Cathy Church’s Photo Centre. We have been the photo experts in the Cayman Islands since 1972. Let us help you capture your special moments in your own personal way. more>>>

Plan your wedding near beautiful Cayman beaches and we will capture the beauty more>>>

Cayman Photographers offers photography throughout Grand Cayman. If you're looking for a great venue to have your wedding or portraits in Grand Cayman, we are happy to recommend several amazing locations such as the Ritz-Carlton, the Marriott Beach Resort, the Westin Casuarina Resort.... more>>>

Our private, one on one affordable classes at Cathy Church's Photo Centre can help you take your photos to the next level.

Whether you want to learn how to take the photo or how to use editing software or even advanced techniques like studio lighting, we can customize a lesson for you. Our instructors will work with you whether you are a beginner or a pro or somewhere in between.

If you have a pocket compact camera or the latest in DSLR's, we can help you get the most from your camera. You will benefit from our personal hands-on methods that will have you learning skills in no time and utilizing new technology to make your photos look amazing. more>>>

Cathy and her team have produced the world's largest underwater photo installation at Grand Cayman's Owen Roberts Airport Baggage Claim area. It covers nine feet high and 145 feet long and is comprised of over 50 photos expertly assembled by Cathy's photoshop guru Charles (CJ) Viggers. CJ spent several all nighters assembling the huge file in time for the printing deadline. Vision Marketing (a local company) printed and installed it.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

Most people do not have the time to lobby, study, fund, and fix our environmental problems. By yourself, your tiny little voice will get lost and misplaced. But when we form massive groups, we can flex enough muscle to fix virtually anything!

Everyone Should Support Three Environmental Organizations:

-- One World-Wide -- One Nation-Wide -- One Local

We Cannot Join Them All, So You Must Pick And Choose Your Battles.

I have personally chosen two battles: stop shark finning and save leatherback turtles. You may choose to protect elephants from poachers, or stop over fishing. But concentrate on one thing and do something -- anything, over and over.

There is no single cause that is more important than another, as they all work together.

For shark finning, I support http://www.sharktrust.org, an effective UK group. Many of you contributed to my request for money to install billboards in China where the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming is pictured asking everyone to just say no to shark fin soup. We collected enough $20 donations to pay for 100 billboards! This campaign was immensely successful. Collectively that money worked well.

Cayman Photographers is part of Cathy Church’s Photo Centre. We have been the photo experts in the Cayman Islands since 1972. Let us help you capture your special moments in your own personal way. more>>>

Plan your wedding near beautiful Cayman beaches and we will capture the beauty more>>>

Cayman Photographers offers photography throughout Grand Cayman. If you're looking for a great venue to have your wedding or portraits in Grand Cayman, we are happy to recommend several amazing locations such as the Ritz-Carlton, the Marriott Beach Resort, the Westin Casuarina Resort.... more>>>

Our private, one on one affordable classes at Cathy Church's Photo Centre can help you take your photos to the next level.

Whether you want to learn how to take the photo or how to use editing software or even advanced techniques like studio lighting, we can customize a lesson for you. Our instructors will work with you whether you are a beginner or a pro or somewhere in between.

If you have a pocket compact camera or the latest in DSLR's, we can help you get the most from your camera. You will benefit from our personal hands-on methods that will have you learning skills in no time and utilizing new technology to make your photos look amazing. more>>>

Cathy and her team have produced the world's largest underwater photo installation at Grand Cayman's Owen Roberts Airport Baggage Claim area. It covers nine feet high and 145 feet long and is comprised of over 50 photos expertly assembled by Cathy's photoshop guru Charles (CJ) Viggers. CJ spent several all nighters assembling the huge file in time for the printing deadline. Vision Marketing (a local company) printed and installed it.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

Most people do not have the time to lobby, study, fund, and fix our environmental problems. By yourself, your tiny little voice will get lost and misplaced. But when we form massive groups, we can flex enough muscle to fix virtually anything!

Everyone Should Support Three Environmental Organizations:

-- One World-Wide -- One Nation-Wide -- One Local

We Cannot Join Them All, So You Must Pick And Choose Your Battles.

I have personally chosen two battles: stop shark finning and save leatherback turtles. You may choose to protect elephants from poachers, or stop over fishing. But concentrate on one thing and do something -- anything, over and over.

There is no single cause that is more important than another, as they all work together.

For shark finning, I support http://www.sharktrust.org, an effective UK group. Many of you contributed to my request for money to install billboards in China where the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming is pictured asking everyone to just say no to shark fin soup. We collected enough $20 donations to pay for 100 billboards! This campaign was immensely successful. Collectively that money worked well.

Cayman Photographers is part of Cathy Church’s Photo Centre. We have been the photo experts in the Cayman Islands since 1972. Let us help you capture your special moments in your own personal way. more>>>

Plan your wedding near beautiful Cayman beaches and we will capture the beauty more>>>

Cayman Photographers offers photography throughout Grand Cayman. If you're looking for a great venue to have your wedding or portraits in Grand Cayman, we are happy to recommend several amazing locations such as the Ritz-Carlton, the Marriott Beach Resort, the Westin Casuarina Resort.... more>>>

Our private, one on one affordable classes at Cathy Church's Photo Centre can help you take your photos to the next level.

Whether you want to learn how to take the photo or how to use editing software or even advanced techniques like studio lighting, we can customize a lesson for you. Our instructors will work with you whether you are a beginner or a pro or somewhere in between.

If you have a pocket compact camera or the latest in DSLR's, we can help you get the most from your camera. You will benefit from our personal hands-on methods that will have you learning skills in no time and utilizing new technology to make your photos look amazing. more>>>

Cathy and her team have produced the world's largest underwater photo installation at Grand Cayman's Owen Roberts Airport Baggage Claim area. It covers nine feet high and 145 feet long and is comprised of over 50 photos expertly assembled by Cathy's photoshop guru Charles (CJ) Viggers. CJ spent several all nighters assembling the huge file in time for the printing deadline. Vision Marketing (a local company) printed and installed it.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

Most people do not have the time to lobby, study, fund, and fix our environmental problems. By yourself, your tiny little voice will get lost and misplaced. But when we form massive groups, we can flex enough muscle to fix virtually anything!

Everyone Should Support Three Environmental Organizations:

-- One World-Wide -- One Nation-Wide -- One Local

We Cannot Join Them All, So You Must Pick And Choose Your Battles.

I have personally chosen two battles: stop shark finning and save leatherback turtles. You may choose to protect elephants from poachers, or stop over fishing. But concentrate on one thing and do something -- anything, over and over.

There is no single cause that is more important than another, as they all work together.

For shark finning, I support http://www.sharktrust.org, an effective UK group. Many of you contributed to my request for money to install billboards in China where the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming is pictured asking everyone to just say no to shark fin soup. We collected enough $20 donations to pay for 100 billboards! This campaign was immensely successful. Collectively that money worked well.

Cayman Photographers is part of Cathy Church’s Photo Centre. We have been the photo experts in the Cayman Islands since 1972. Let us help you capture your special moments in your own personal way. more>>>

Plan your wedding near beautiful Cayman beaches and we will capture the beauty more>>>

Cayman Photographers offers photography throughout Grand Cayman. If you're looking for a great venue to have your wedding or portraits in Grand Cayman, we are happy to recommend several amazing locations such as the Ritz-Carlton, the Marriott Beach Resort, the Westin Casuarina Resort.... more>>>

Our private, one on one affordable classes at Cathy Church's Photo Centre can help you take your photos to the next level.

Whether you want to learn how to take the photo or how to use editing software or even advanced techniques like studio lighting, we can customize a lesson for you. Our instructors will work with you whether you are a beginner or a pro or somewhere in between.

If you have a pocket compact camera or the latest in DSLR's, we can help you get the most from your camera. You will benefit from our personal hands-on methods that will have you learning skills in no time and utilizing new technology to make your photos look amazing. more>>>

Cathy and her team have produced the world's largest underwater photo installation at Grand Cayman's Owen Roberts Airport Baggage Claim area. It covers nine feet high and 145 feet long and is comprised of over 50 photos expertly assembled by Cathy's photoshop guru Charles (CJ) Viggers. CJ spent several all nighters assembling the huge file in time for the printing deadline. Vision Marketing (a local company) printed and installed it.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

As a child, Cathy Church was an avid biologist and bird watcher. She earned a BS in biology from the University of Michigan where she learned to SCUBA dive. She was studying marine biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine biology station in Monterey, California when she met Jim Church, a scuba diver who was pioneering underwater photography and writing for Skin Diver Magazine in the early 60s. Cathy wanted to document her underwater work and spent many dives with Jim exploring ways to use the Calypso camera and flashbulb systems with homemade accessories.

Most people do not have the time to lobby, study, fund, and fix our environmental problems. By yourself, your tiny little voice will get lost and misplaced. But when we form massive groups, we can flex enough muscle to fix virtually anything!

Everyone Should Support Three Environmental Organizations:

-- One World-Wide -- One Nation-Wide -- One Local

We Cannot Join Them All, So You Must Pick And Choose Your Battles.

I have personally chosen two battles: stop shark finning and save leatherback turtles. You may choose to protect elephants from poachers, or stop over fishing. But concentrate on one thing and do something -- anything, over and over.

There is no single cause that is more important than another, as they all work together.

For shark finning, I support http://www.sharktrust.org, an effective UK group. Many of you contributed to my request for money to install billboards in China where the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming is pictured asking everyone to just say no to shark fin soup. We collected enough $20 donations to pay for 100 billboards! This campaign was immensely successful. Collectively that money worked well.

Our Underwater Photo Fest has the world’s longest dive times! Join our 10th Cathy Church Underwater Photo Fest at Sunset House, in Grand Cayman. On the shallow dive days, you can dive, shoot, come up when your tank is low, get some water or fruit while your tank is being changed (you don’t even have to get out of the water). Go back down and do it all over again until THREE HOURS are up: more>>>

Cathy has a wonderful staff of skilled underwater photographers and videographers who can provide you with all of your underwater image needs. If you cannot come to Cayman but still need a photo or video from the underwater realm, you can hire us to take virtually anything you need. We have access to boats, reefs, beautiful water, and models.more>>>

Sunset House Hotel is the best location for an underwater wedding for several important reasons:

1. You can board a boat at the dock right at the hotel to take you to the location of your choice.

Or step in to the calm, clear, warm water at the shore and swim a short distance to the location of your choice. Many people like the flat area seaward of the mermaid where your wedding party can kneel comfortably on the bottom without fear of damaging fragile coral near by.

If you would like photographs taken of you anywhere in the water or on land here in Cayman, we can do it for you! You take home eitherthe CD or DVD from a digital shoot or video, or have your prints made here, or both! All prices in $US. more>>>

Let one of our experienced photographers or videographers tell the story of your unique diving experience swimming through coral tunnels, exploring the wreck of the Kittiwake", or interacting with turtles and angel fish. Do not let this great opportunity go by!

Do you know someone who would like to go diving with you but is afraid to? If so, then pass this article along to them after you have read it yourself. In my thirty years of diving I have seen many people conquer their fear and go on to love SCUBA diving. But, I have also seen many instructors and spouses destroy the possibility of a frightened person ever learning to dive. This article is for three people: the frightened student diver, the supportive friend, and the instructor. Often the roles I describe will overlap. Read them all to see which pertain to you and to help assure that everyone is doing the best they can to improve the odds that the frightened student will become a comfortable diver. (While I use the words him, his and he in the following, I, of course, mean him or her, he or she.) more>>>

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Yes -- we teach all types of photography, videography as well as digital image-and video-editing (Photoshop, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and more). You can have a private or semi-private class with one of our instructors or attend an evening above-water group class. As always you will learn in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

We offer a full-service, on-site above water and underwater photography base to meet the needs of the most demanding photographers, including Cathy Church, an award winning, professional underwater photographer. We can provide everything you need for your shoot, or we can shoot your advertising, editorial or stock job for you. Contact us to discuss your needs.

Cathy Church is available to shoot your job. With fifty years of experience and understanding of professional underwater photography, she has an extensive portfolio of worldwide clients, including Nikon, Kodak, US Virgin Islands, Carnival Cruises, Cayman Islands, Sharp Electronics, Atlantis Submarines and more. She knows what is involved to make sure that the photo is successful and MEETS YOUR NEEDS. Our assistants are photographers and experienced divers.

You will have time to relax, plan and make colorful and beautiful photos, or maybe a fast adventurous photo of a manta ray.

There is always something wonderful on every dive in the Solomon Islands and there are rarely any other divers at all as we travel along the island chain from Guadalcanal to the Floridas, the Russells, Mary Island and all the way to the world Heritage site of Morovo Lagoon. The water is generally calm, and currents, if any, are mild. Photo opportunities vary from numerous anemone fish (yes-- Nemo's family are abundant), lush and vivid coral reefs, sheer walls adorned with huge red fans and much more.

The people are friendly and appreciative of our contributions we give them to dive on their reefs, buy their produce, and to enjoy a cultural tour. We all are better for our visits.

These two connecting trips cover the best of Indonesia with reduced air travel. We leave from Bali, continue to Komodo and then on to Maumere when some guests will leave and fly back to Bali while others will fly in to meet us and some will simply stay put. From Maumere the second trip will continue eastward north of Flores and make a large loop through Alor and return to Maumere for our flight back to Bali. This is a new and exciting itinerary to give us the best of Komodo, along with new sites away from the crowded park and with less current, and then onward on the second trip to the exciting diving in this newly explored area of Alor.more>>>

1. You will have access to Cathy Church to answer your questions about your camera equipment and techniques. You will enjoy my free coaching and mini-lectures offered throughout the day to answer photo questions, share ideas, and critique images.

2. You will get free lessons and help with editing your photos with Photoshop. If you need special help, I will even help you in the water if I see you having a problem with your camera or technique.

3. You can find help or share your own ideas with everyone around you. You will be surrounded by photographers who are happy to help you with answers, tips and ideas.more>>>

Our Underwater Photo Fest has the world’s longest dive times! Join our 10th Cathy Church Underwater Photo Fest at Sunset House, in Grand Cayman. On the shallow dive days, you can dive, shoot, come up when your tank is low, get some water or fruit while your tank is being changed (you don’t even have to get out of the water). Go back down and do it all over again until THREE HOURS are up: more>>>

Cathy has a wonderful staff of skilled underwater photographers and videographers who can provide you with all of your underwater image needs. If you cannot come to Cayman but still need a photo or video from the underwater realm, you can hire us to take virtually anything you need. We have access to boats, reefs, beautiful water, and models.more>>>

Sunset House Hotel is the best location for an underwater wedding for several important reasons:

1. You can board a boat at the dock right at the hotel to take you to the location of your choice.

Or step in to the calm, clear, warm water at the shore and swim a short distance to the location of your choice. Many people like the flat area seaward of the mermaid where your wedding party can kneel comfortably on the bottom without fear of damaging fragile coral near by.

If you would like photographs taken of you anywhere in the water or on land here in Cayman, we can do it for you! You take home eitherthe CD or DVD from a digital shoot or video, or have your prints made here, or both! All prices in $US. more>>>

Let one of our experienced photographers or videographers tell the story of your unique diving experience swimming through coral tunnels, exploring the wreck of the Kittiwake", or interacting with turtles and angel fish. Do not let this great opportunity go by!

Do you know someone who would like to go diving with you but is afraid to? If so, then pass this article along to them after you have read it yourself. In my thirty years of diving I have seen many people conquer their fear and go on to love SCUBA diving. But, I have also seen many instructors and spouses destroy the possibility of a frightened person ever learning to dive. This article is for three people: the frightened student diver, the supportive friend, and the instructor. Often the roles I describe will overlap. Read them all to see which pertain to you and to help assure that everyone is doing the best they can to improve the odds that the frightened student will become a comfortable diver. (While I use the words him, his and he in the following, I, of course, mean him or her, he or she.) more>>>

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Yes -- we teach all types of photography, videography as well as digital image-and video-editing (Photoshop, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and more). You can have a private or semi-private class with one of our instructors or attend an evening above-water group class. As always you will learn in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

We offer a full-service, on-site above water and underwater photography base to meet the needs of the most demanding photographers, including Cathy Church, an award winning, professional underwater photographer. We can provide everything you need for your shoot, or we can shoot your advertising, editorial or stock job for you. Contact us to discuss your needs.

Cathy Church is available to shoot your job. With fifty years of experience and understanding of professional underwater photography, she has an extensive portfolio of worldwide clients, including Nikon, Kodak, US Virgin Islands, Carnival Cruises, Cayman Islands, Sharp Electronics, Atlantis Submarines and more. She knows what is involved to make sure that the photo is successful and MEETS YOUR NEEDS. Our assistants are photographers and experienced divers.

You will have time to relax, plan and make colorful and beautiful photos, or maybe a fast adventurous photo of a manta ray.

There is always something wonderful on every dive in the Solomon Islands and there are rarely any other divers at all as we travel along the island chain from Guadalcanal to the Floridas, the Russells, Mary Island and all the way to the world Heritage site of Morovo Lagoon. The water is generally calm, and currents, if any, are mild. Photo opportunities vary from numerous anemone fish (yes-- Nemo's family are abundant), lush and vivid coral reefs, sheer walls adorned with huge red fans and much more.

The people are friendly and appreciative of our contributions we give them to dive on their reefs, buy their produce, and to enjoy a cultural tour. We all are better for our visits.

These two connecting trips cover the best of Indonesia with reduced air travel. We leave from Bali, continue to Komodo and then on to Maumere when some guests will leave and fly back to Bali while others will fly in to meet us and some will simply stay put. From Maumere the second trip will continue eastward north of Flores and make a large loop through Alor and return to Maumere for our flight back to Bali. This is a new and exciting itinerary to give us the best of Komodo, along with new sites away from the crowded park and with less current, and then onward on the second trip to the exciting diving in this newly explored area of Alor.more>>>

1. You will have access to Cathy Church to answer your questions about your camera equipment and techniques. You will enjoy my free coaching and mini-lectures offered throughout the day to answer photo questions, share ideas, and critique images.

2. You will get free lessons and help with editing your photos with Photoshop. If you need special help, I will even help you in the water if I see you having a problem with your camera or technique.

3. You can find help or share your own ideas with everyone around you. You will be surrounded by photographers who are happy to help you with answers, tips and ideas.more>>>

Our Underwater Photo Fest has the world’s longest dive times! Join our 10th Cathy Church Underwater Photo Fest at Sunset House, in Grand Cayman. On the shallow dive days, you can dive, shoot, come up when your tank is low, get some water or fruit while your tank is being changed (you don’t even have to get out of the water). Go back down and do it all over again until THREE HOURS are up: more>>>

Cathy has a wonderful staff of skilled underwater photographers and videographers who can provide you with all of your underwater image needs. If you cannot come to Cayman but still need a photo or video from the underwater realm, you can hire us to take virtually anything you need. We have access to boats, reefs, beautiful water, and models.more>>>

Sunset House Hotel is the best location for an underwater wedding for several important reasons:

1. You can board a boat at the dock right at the hotel to take you to the location of your choice.

Or step in to the calm, clear, warm water at the shore and swim a short distance to the location of your choice. Many people like the flat area seaward of the mermaid where your wedding party can kneel comfortably on the bottom without fear of damaging fragile coral near by.

If you would like photographs taken of you anywhere in the water or on land here in Cayman, we can do it for you! You take home eitherthe CD or DVD from a digital shoot or video, or have your prints made here, or both! All prices in $US. more>>>

Let one of our experienced photographers or videographers tell the story of your unique diving experience swimming through coral tunnels, exploring the wreck of the Kittiwake", or interacting with turtles and angel fish. Do not let this great opportunity go by!

Do you know someone who would like to go diving with you but is afraid to? If so, then pass this article along to them after you have read it yourself. In my thirty years of diving I have seen many people conquer their fear and go on to love SCUBA diving. But, I have also seen many instructors and spouses destroy the possibility of a frightened person ever learning to dive. This article is for three people: the frightened student diver, the supportive friend, and the instructor. Often the roles I describe will overlap. Read them all to see which pertain to you and to help assure that everyone is doing the best they can to improve the odds that the frightened student will become a comfortable diver. (While I use the words him, his and he in the following, I, of course, mean him or her, he or she.) more>>>

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Yes -- we teach all types of photography, videography as well as digital image-and video-editing (Photoshop, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and more). You can have a private or semi-private class with one of our instructors or attend an evening above-water group class. As always you will learn in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

We offer a full-service, on-site above water and underwater photography base to meet the needs of the most demanding photographers, including Cathy Church, an award winning, professional underwater photographer. We can provide everything you need for your shoot, or we can shoot your advertising, editorial or stock job for you. Contact us to discuss your needs.

Cathy Church is available to shoot your job. With fifty years of experience and understanding of professional underwater photography, she has an extensive portfolio of worldwide clients, including Nikon, Kodak, US Virgin Islands, Carnival Cruises, Cayman Islands, Sharp Electronics, Atlantis Submarines and more. She knows what is involved to make sure that the photo is successful and MEETS YOUR NEEDS. Our assistants are photographers and experienced divers.

You will have time to relax, plan and make colorful and beautiful photos, or maybe a fast adventurous photo of a manta ray.

There is always something wonderful on every dive in the Solomon Islands and there are rarely any other divers at all as we travel along the island chain from Guadalcanal to the Floridas, the Russells, Mary Island and all the way to the world Heritage site of Morovo Lagoon. The water is generally calm, and currents, if any, are mild. Photo opportunities vary from numerous anemone fish (yes-- Nemo's family are abundant), lush and vivid coral reefs, sheer walls adorned with huge red fans and much more.

The people are friendly and appreciative of our contributions we give them to dive on their reefs, buy their produce, and to enjoy a cultural tour. We all are better for our visits.

These two connecting trips cover the best of Indonesia with reduced air travel. We leave from Bali, continue to Komodo and then on to Maumere when some guests will leave and fly back to Bali while others will fly in to meet us and some will simply stay put. From Maumere the second trip will continue eastward north of Flores and make a large loop through Alor and return to Maumere for our flight back to Bali. This is a new and exciting itinerary to give us the best of Komodo, along with new sites away from the crowded park and with less current, and then onward on the second trip to the exciting diving in this newly explored area of Alor.more>>>

1. You will have access to Cathy Church to answer your questions about your camera equipment and techniques. You will enjoy my free coaching and mini-lectures offered throughout the day to answer photo questions, share ideas, and critique images.

2. You will get free lessons and help with editing your photos with Photoshop. If you need special help, I will even help you in the water if I see you having a problem with your camera or technique.

3. You can find help or share your own ideas with everyone around you. You will be surrounded by photographers who are happy to help you with answers, tips and ideas.more>>>

Our Underwater Photo Fest has the world’s longest dive times! Join our 10th Cathy Church Underwater Photo Fest at Sunset House, in Grand Cayman. On the shallow dive days, you can dive, shoot, come up when your tank is low, get some water or fruit while your tank is being changed (you don’t even have to get out of the water). Go back down and do it all over again until THREE HOURS are up: more>>>

Cathy has a wonderful staff of skilled underwater photographers and videographers who can provide you with all of your underwater image needs. If you cannot come to Cayman but still need a photo or video from the underwater realm, you can hire us to take virtually anything you need. We have access to boats, reefs, beautiful water, and models.more>>>

Sunset House Hotel is the best location for an underwater wedding for several important reasons:

1. You can board a boat at the dock right at the hotel to take you to the location of your choice.

Or step in to the calm, clear, warm water at the shore and swim a short distance to the location of your choice. Many people like the flat area seaward of the mermaid where your wedding party can kneel comfortably on the bottom without fear of damaging fragile coral near by.

If you would like photographs taken of you anywhere in the water or on land here in Cayman, we can do it for you! You take home eitherthe CD or DVD from a digital shoot or video, or have your prints made here, or both! All prices in $US. more>>>

Let one of our experienced photographers or videographers tell the story of your unique diving experience swimming through coral tunnels, exploring the wreck of the Kittiwake", or interacting with turtles and angel fish. Do not let this great opportunity go by!

Here is an easy QUICKIE that anyone can do with any post editing program that allows putting two photos together.

Do you know someone who would like to go diving with you but is afraid to? If so, then pass this article along to them after you have read it yourself. In my thirty years of diving I have seen many people conquer their fear and go on to love SCUBA diving. But, I have also seen many instructors and spouses destroy the possibility of a frightened person ever learning to dive. This article is for three people: the frightened student diver, the supportive friend, and the instructor. Often the roles I describe will overlap. Read them all to see which pertain to you and to help assure that everyone is doing the best they can to improve the odds that the frightened student will become a comfortable diver. (While I use the words him, his and he in the following, I, of course, mean him or her, he or she.) more>>>

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Capture wonderful photographs and videos of your Cayman underwater adventure. All rentals include a FREE MINI-LESSON and CD or DVD of your photos, or transfer to your computer or your thumb drive for video.

Discounts available for multi-day rentals.

All multi-day rentals are returned to the photo centre each day for battery changes

Pick-up and return times can be adjusted depending on where you are staying and your dive boat schedule.

Yes -- we teach all types of photography, videography as well as digital image-and video-editing (Photoshop, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and more). You can have a private or semi-private class with one of our instructors or attend an evening above-water group class. As always you will learn in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

We offer a full-service, on-site above water and underwater photography base to meet the needs of the most demanding photographers, including Cathy Church, an award winning, professional underwater photographer. We can provide everything you need for your shoot, or we can shoot your advertising, editorial or stock job for you. Contact us to discuss your needs.

Cathy Church is available to shoot your job. With fifty years of experience and understanding of professional underwater photography, she has an extensive portfolio of worldwide clients, including Nikon, Kodak, US Virgin Islands, Carnival Cruises, Cayman Islands, Sharp Electronics, Atlantis Submarines and more. She knows what is involved to make sure that the photo is successful and MEETS YOUR NEEDS. Our assistants are photographers and experienced divers.

You will have time to relax, plan and make colorful and beautiful photos, or maybe a fast adventurous photo of a manta ray.

There is always something wonderful on every dive in the Solomon Islands and there are rarely any other divers at all as we travel along the island chain from Guadalcanal to the Floridas, the Russells, Mary Island and all the way to the world Heritage site of Morovo Lagoon. The water is generally calm, and currents, if any, are mild. Photo opportunities vary from numerous anemone fish (yes-- Nemo's family are abundant), lush and vivid coral reefs, sheer walls adorned with huge red fans and much more.

The people are friendly and appreciative of our contributions we give them to dive on their reefs, buy their produce, and to enjoy a cultural tour. We all are better for our visits.

These two connecting trips cover the best of Indonesia with reduced air travel. We leave from Bali, continue to Komodo and then on to Maumere when some guests will leave and fly back to Bali while others will fly in to meet us and some will simply stay put. From Maumere the second trip will continue eastward north of Flores and make a large loop through Alor and return to Maumere for our flight back to Bali. This is a new and exciting itinerary to give us the best of Komodo, along with new sites away from the crowded park and with less current, and then onward on the second trip to the exciting diving in this newly explored area of Alor.more>>>

1. You will have access to Cathy Church to answer your questions about your camera equipment and techniques. You will enjoy my free coaching and mini-lectures offered throughout the day to answer photo questions, share ideas, and critique images.

2. You will get free lessons and help with editing your photos with Photoshop. If you need special help, I will even help you in the water if I see you having a problem with your camera or technique.

3. You can find help or share your own ideas with everyone around you. You will be surrounded by photographers who are happy to help you with answers, tips and ideas.more>>>

Enjoy the best of both worlds:Three nights at Sunset House Hotel anda week in Little Cayman/Cayman Brac aboard the Cayman Aggressor Vwith Cathy Church teaching and helping everyone get photos underwater.

June 24 - 27 at Sunset House, and June 27 to July 4, 2020 on Cayman Aggressor V

Cathy Church photo centre and her wonderful instructors.

Arrival Day at Sunset House is June 24, 2020: Cathy and three staff meet with you individually to review camera settings and help you perform a complete function test of your assembled camera system as you follow the instructions from a handout e-mailed to you in advance. After we help you test, adjust, and add whatever you might need to make your system as functional as possible underwater you may just relax or go for a shore dive with a buddy to check everything out. There will be orientation and a pizza party dinner that evening at the photo centre-- or maybe outdoors.

Cathy has the world's most experienced underwater photo centre with two veteran instructors: Theunis Neethling and Lisa Collins--both of whom have been teaching underwater photography for well over ten years. This special land/sea combo combines the best diving resort with the best live-aboard in the Cayman Islands.

Land plan

The style will be much like the very popular Cathy Church Photo Fest weeks held annually at Sunset House. But this special week has only three nights on land and a week at sea, and it has a smaller group of only 18 guests.

June 25 and 26: The group will be diving from two Sunset Diver dive boats that leave around 8 am with nine guests plus one instructor on each boat to help you above and underwater. Cathy, as amazing as she is, can only be on one boat per day. Of course you will love the usual Cathy Church style three-hour dives on a shallow reef to relax, and get used to your camera system and plan your photos. When your tank runs low, just go back to the boat and the wonderful Sunset Divers crew will change it to a fresh tank while you enjoy a drink of water and you go right back down.

AND we ALL leave our politics behind. No Politics or religion will even be mentioned during this trip!! No hint, no comment, no jokes.

The sea portion

The new 120' Cayman Aggressor V has 7 crew. There are 3 twin and 5 deluxe cabins and 2 balcony suites, each with individual air conditioning, en suite facilities and hairdryer.

The public areas are all big on this boat. The dive deck is huge and entirely shaded. There are two large double shelved camera tables and diving is done from the stern platform. The boat is always moored to the dive site, so there is no travel time between gearing up and being underwater.

The Salon is also HUGE

There is plenty of room to relax with your computer and look at your photos, assemble cameras, or just read. Cathy meets with those who need to solve problems, share ideas, or just chat. There are no rules except to be polite.

More areas to relax

Between dives nap in the shade on the sun deck, or on cushioned lounges in the sun, or even in a Jacuzzi!

Dining

Every day starts with a cooked to order breakfast then a buffet lunch. Dinner is served with elegant table-side service featuring salads, vegetables, seafood, beef or chicken with a fresh homemade dessert.

Fresh produce is readily available and their menu includes variety to suit all tastes and diets.

Now for the important parts--The underwater photography opportunities!!

Diving starts in Grand Cayman

Our first dives in Grand Cayman will start with a long three-hour shallow macro dive. You can relax and let the creative ideas flow and spend enough time to get the subject just right and to get your buoyancy and camera systems fine tuned. On the second day we will do a wall dive for the unique photos available at Orange Canyon or NW point or even Big Tunnel.

In Little Cayman, the wall starts shallow and you can stay there for a long time, or drop down into deeper water and explore the sheer vertical drop-off. No where else is there diving just like the Bloody Bay Wall of Little Cayman! It is easy, plentiful, and gorgeous. Bring your wide angle lens for scenic photos and your macro too, and your medium lens for fish and your video for the groupers, and your big memory cards and extra batteries for quick change between dives and your Nitrox card! Every one must be Nitrox certified so you can enjoy more leisurely diving and less fatigue.

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Schooling fish

Colorful spongesTurtlesCurious groupers

Yes, this web page is being built all by myself (Cathy) and I have almost zero training in Joomla, but this is as good as I can do for now. the important thing is that you learn about how great this trip is for a Cayman underwater photo experience with me--the one, the only Cathy Church. Hip, hip hooray. Do I go to far--probably.

Photography trips with Cathy Church

The best reason to join Cathy on a dive trip is because she brings along EXTRA back-up camera gear in case YOU have a breakdown! The best insurance policy ever! She will contact each guest in advance to find out exactly what you are bringing, and will ask you to send a photo of the assembled system (unless she has already known your system from earlier classes and trips). She can then plan her back-up systems accordingly.

Cathy will be available throughout this trip to answer questions, help with problems, critique as needed to troubleshoot or just to admire your photos. If you have topics in particular that you would like Cathy to do a presentation on, Cathy is quite happy to do that on the boat. However, sometimes the best learning is one-on-one at your computer discussing your photos.

And one more advantage, Cathy is there to make sure that you are getting the care you need, the dives you want, and the services above and underwater that you are expecting. Cathy is also there in case another guest is making you feel uncomfortable or is disrupting your ability to enjoy the trip. Fortunately, Cathy has been called upon to do this only about three times in her more than 50 trips, but Cathy has nipped several issues in the bud before anyone even knew about it.

Price:

Cost for this Cayman Islands adventure at Sunset House and aboard the Cayman Aggressor V depends on your room choices. Here are three sample packages, but any combination of room choice is available on a first come, first serve basis.

• Daily breakfast at Sea Harvest Restaurant at Sunset House

• Nitrox.

• Instruction and coaching with two instructors plus Cathy from noon to 6 pm on arrival day, 7:30 am to 6:00 pm on the 25th and 26th and 9 am to 3 pm on the 27th. Private classes on earlier days or other hours are available and billed by the hour.

• Transfer from Airport to Sunset House and transfer from Sunset House to the Aggressor. You are on your own to get from the Aggressor back to the airport.

• Seven nights accommodations aboard the Aggressor, (per person, based on double occupancy) boarding mid afternoon of the 27th, disembarking on the morning of July 4.

• All meals, snacks and beverages on the Aggressor up to the mid day meal on the July 3. Dinner at Casanova restaurant on the 3rd is not included by Aggressor but is included in your package with Cathy and includes beer and wine and a set menu with several choices.

• All diving activities.

• Nitrox

• $95.00 port fee.

• Coaching/lectures/critique/troubleshooting/back-up equipment from 7 am to 9 pm available to the group from Cathy above water. Limited assistance underwater as Cathy will be taking her own camera into the water.

• Travel insurance is always important for an overseas dive trip,

Reservation information

To reserve please send a cheque to Cathy Church Photo Center, Sunset House, 390 South Church Street, Grand Cayman, KY1-1106 Cayman Islands or call (345) 949-7415 for our Cayman number, or(607) 330-3504 U.S. direct, with credit card information. There is approximately a 2.5% credit card surcharge for all portions paid for with credit card. We accept all major credit cards EXCEPT American Express.

Payments

$1000.00 with reservation

2nd payment of US$1500.00 due by 24th September, 2019

3rd payment of 50% of trip balance due 21st December, 2019

Final balance due by 10th February, 2020

Cancellation Policy,

If a cancellation is made...

Before 24th September 2019, US$1000.00 deposit forfeited

Between 24th September 2019 and 20th December 2019, US$2500.00 is forfeited

Between 21st December 2019 and 9th February 2020, 50% of trip balance is forfeited